Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2021

According to the alert issued by the FBI, the swatters have been hijacking smart devices such as video and audio capable home surveillance devices. “Recently, offenders have been using victims’ smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices, to carry out swatting attacks. ” concludes the alert.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories – a Paris-based nonprofit media group that works with journalists – said earlier this week that users of the Israeli-developed spyware were able to hack into iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 devices, as well as Android devices, of tens of thousands of people – including a number of world leaders.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

In October 2019, security experts at Amnesty International’s Security Lab have uncovered targeted attacks against Moroccan human rights defenders Maati Monjib and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui that employed NSO Group surveillance tools. This attack scenario sees attackers monitoring and manipulating the Internet traffic of the target.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In this episode of The Hacker Mind , Beau Woods and Paulino Calderon discuss their book, Practical IoT Hacking, and talk about IoT threat models, the technologies being used today, and what tools and knowledge you need to get started successfully hacking IoT devices. Vamosi: I once lived near a large urban park.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Uber scam lures victims with alert from a real Uber number Teaching cybersecurity skills to special needs children with Alana Robinson: Lock and Code S02E18. Stay safe, everyone! The post A week in security (Sept 20 – Sept 26) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 11, 2021

As awareness of corporate surveillance and criminal hacking has grown, so have concerns about personal privacy. I don’t need a mobile VPN. Some people think they don’t need a mobile VPN because their carrier looks after their security, or has a lot to say about privacy. VPNs will slow down my internet connection.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Representatives of the Stanford Internet Observatory declared that users should assume all conversations are being recorded by the company, a circumstance that raises concerns because they have no information on how the conversations are stored. Lets talk about the Clubhouse 'hack' which wasn't. ” reported Bloomberg.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2022

million vehicles can allow hackers to remotely hack them. “These vulnerabilities could impact access to a vehicle fuel supply, vehicle control, or allow locational surveillance of vehicles in which the device is installed.” Multiple flaws in MiCODUS MV720 Global Positioning System (GPS) trackers shipped with over 1.5

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

It encompasses various forms of cybercrime and online harm, including cyberstalking, tracking, hacking accounts and intimate image abuse. A common example of this is surveillance. Still, it might not be seen that way due to the normalization of surveillance and the narrative that 'surveillance is love'.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on the temperature and availability of their favorite beverages. Related: Companies sustain damage from IoT attacks That was back in 1982.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2019

The head of London’s Serpentine Galleries resigned on Tuesday following a Guardian report about her links to the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. Pegasus is a perfect tool for surveillance, it is able to steal any kind of data from smartphones and use them to spy on the surrounding environment through their camera and microphone.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Earlier this year, 36 journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera had their personal phones hacked. Their phones were hacked through the use of an exploit chain known as KISMET, an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage. and could hack the Apple iPhone 11.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Can you hack an airplane? Vamosi: Maybe you remember this: In 2014, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek succeeded in hacking a Jeep Cherokee while a reporter was driving it on a freeway during rush hour in St Louis, Missouri. So, given that we can now hack into cars remotely, could we hack into other systems as well?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

can covertly access mobile-phone networks around the world through “back doors” designed for use by law enforcement, as Washington tries to persuade allies to exclude the Chinese company from their networks.” This week The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. “U.S. officials say Huawei Technologies Co. officials said.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365. CVE-2019-2234 flaws in Android Camera Apps exposed millions of users surveillance. T-Mobile discloses data breach affecting prepaid wireless customers. A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

In total, 53,870 of our mobile users were affected globally by stalkerware in 2020. The software, known as stalkerware, is commercially available to everyone with access to the internet. To calculate our statistics, we review the consumer line of Kaspersky’s mobile security solutions. All received data is anonymized.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 8, 2019

» Related Stories Spotlight: as Attacks Mount, how to secure the Industrial Internet Die Hard is a Movie About Building Automation Insecurity. We sit down with IoT luminary and influencer Stacey Higginbotham of the Internet of Things podcast and the StaceyonIoT blog to find out. We sit down with IoT luminary and.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Upon opening the app, it requests that the user grant the app permissions to perform surveillance actions such as to access to the microphone to record audio and all files stored on the device. The app asks the user to Enable the device admin permission or “system won’t secure your internet connection.”. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

Recent research by the cybersecurity experts at VPNpro shows that the popular mobile VPN developer Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt. Other than this, there are two further crucial issues. Bottom line.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 18, 2018

to more than 6,000 customers, he also helped them to hack computers worldwide. Our modern society is dependent on computers, mobile devices, and the use of the internet. In September 2016, the UK law enforcement arrested Colton Grubbs, the man admitted to designing, marketing, and selling LuminosityLink.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2022

The US NCSC and the Department of State published joint guidance on defending against attacks using commercial surveillance tools. In the last years, we have reported several cases of companies selling commercial surveillance tools to governments and other entities that have used them for malicious purposes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 11, 2019

Hacking Radio Blasting Systems for Fun & Explosions. StockX hacked, customers data offered for sale on the dark web. The US Gov is testing high-altitude balloons for surveillance. QualPwn Bugs in Qualcomm chips could allow hacking Android Over the Air. GermanWiper, a data-wiping malware that is targeting Germany.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2020

The network will as well serve as the basis for advanced services such as complex remote operations like delivery and surveillance drones, remote unmanned vehicles, and surgical robots. Moreover, there will be 8k streaming as well as real-time mobile gaming transforming to virtual or augmented reality experiences. He is a geek.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Air Force announced Hack the Air Force 3.0, Snowden speaks about the role of surveillance firm NSO Group in Khashoggi murder. Symantec shared details of North Korean Lazaruss FastCash Trojan used to hack banks. Researcher discloses VirtualBox Zero-Day without reporting it to Oracle. the third Bug Bounty Program.

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Hackology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

At least 20 mobile devices have been compromised by Kamran, which has a unique code composition that distinguishes it from other known spyware. By allowing the spyware to access such personal information, users are putting themselves at risk of identity theft, financial fraud, and unauthorized surveillance.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2024

EKEN IoT FAIL: Amazon, Sears and Shein still sell security swerving stuff. The post Cheap Video Doorbell Cams: Tools of Stalkers and Thieves appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2019

A Russian security researcher has found that hardware wiretapping equipment composing Russia’s SORM surveillance system had been leaking user data. SORM is a mass surveillance system that allows the Government of Moscow to track online activities of single individuals thanks to the support of the Russian ISPs.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

DX is the wider context, here, in the sense that DX is made possible because of the rise of “datafication” — the processes by which we’ve come to rapaciously collect and store mind-boggling amounts of data from web forms, social media, mobile apps, surveillance cameras, IoT sensors and the like. And that’s a good thing, indeed.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 21, 2023

With the increasing need for online privacy and security, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) have become a popular solution for internet users. VPNs allow users to access the internet securely and privately by encrypting their internet traffic and hiding their IP addresses. Or do you need a VPN for general internet use?

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2018

An employee at Amnesty International has been targeted with Israeli surveillance malware, the news was revealed by the human rights group. Amnesty International revealed that one of its employees was targeted with a surveillance malware developed by an Israeli firm. ” reads the report published Amnesty International.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

To protect personal information and feel safe while surfing the internet; 2. Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 13, 2022

the firm’s Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, is quoted as saying that Apple “makes the most secure mobile devices on the market.”. Flip phones are not totally immune from government surveillance and action either.). Also concerning is the fact that in Apple’s Lockdown announcement, Ivan Krsti?,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2019

NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware made the headlines again, this time the malware was used to spy on 2 rights activists in Morocco according Amnesty International. Amnesty International collected evidence of new abuses of the NSO Group ‘s surveillance spyware, this time the malware was used to spy two rights activists in Morocco.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And what if that unease was coming from your mobile device. The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. It's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. In early September 2021.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

“And Norse’s much-vaunted interactive attack map was indeed some serious eye candy: It purported to track the source and destination of countless Internet attacks in near real-time, and showed what appeared to be multicolored fireballs continuously arcing across the globe.”

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SecureList

MAY 31, 2021

For example, before making the first internet connection to its C2s, the Sunburst malware lies dormant for up to two weeks, preventing easy detection of this behaviour in sandboxes. One way to trick employees is to pose as IT support staff – this method was used in the Twitter hack in July 2020.

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